Pauline Toboulidis | March 19, 2020 | Election Administration
Many state primary elections have been affected from quarantine regulations set in response to the COVID-19 pandemic—with several states having already altered their primary contests in response to growing concerns. Here are some of the latest stories:Coronavirus:...
Edward B. Foley, Steven F. Huefner, Jennifer Morinigo and Pauline Toboulidis | March 18, 2020 | Election Administration
In 2019, The American Law Institute published Principles of the Law, Election Administration: Non-Precinct Voting and Resolution of Ballot-Counting Disputes. Part I, Early In-Person Voting and Open Absentee Voting, provides principles for use by jurisdictions that...
Edward B. Foley and Michael McConnell | June 10, 2019 | Election Administration
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was correct when she recently said that the best way to avoid a disputed election is for the result to be a blowout. But that is a hope, and we need a plan. If the midterm elections are any indication, the number of states with razor thin...
Steven Rosenfeld | June 6, 2019 | Election Administration
As 2020’s elections edge closer, recent troubling developments are casting new light on an old question—what will it take for the results to be trusted?The emergence of powerful forms of online political propaganda, the absence of progress in 2019 state legislatures...
Steven Rosenfeld | April 17, 2019 | Election Administration
If the 2020 presidential election hinges on recounts in the closest battleground states, there could be a crisis even greater than the 2000 election where the U.S. Supreme Court ended a Florida recount in its infamous Bush v. Gore ruling.“I see what the states have...
Pauline Toboulidis | March 18, 2019 | Election Administration
ALI’s Principles of the Law, Election Administration is now available. The principles apply to any type of elective office and are structured to be useful to multiple audiences, including state legislatures, state courts, and state officers such as secretaries of...
